Multi Agency Working

The main aim of partnership working is to improve the experience and outcomes of people who use services and this is achieved by minimising organisational barriers between different services. Working in partnerships with others enables me to perform tasks that would be impossible alone. There are many people I can benefit from working in partnership with such as colleagues, as well as service users and their family members, doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers and various other healthcare professionals. These people may be able to help give me useful information and help support me in my job by supporting me with any problems I might have.

Assessment of care and support needs from local authority to look at social care needs should also be offered. Being on the Care Programme Approach (CPA) means that a care coordinator will be provided for the person. The care coordinator might be a social worker, community psychiatric nurse (CPN) or an occupational therapist. They will help in writing a care plan, which will set out how support will be received. Responsibilities of the Care Coordinator Care Programme Approach means that you will be allocated a regular care coordinator that will be assessing your needs, write a care plan which shows how you need will be met by other organizations and will regularly review the plan to check

The CQC uses and monitors services continuously, it is also the entity responsible for gathering and analysing information, then publish their findings to give consumers clear information when making choices and to help services improve. The kind of information they use is inclusive of: information collected directly from care providers, information about people’s experiences and vies from their families and carers and lastly data used to plan inspection

The critical incident was the lack of information sharing could have led Emma not receiving the services which were identified for her by the health visitor. The concept of joint working is central is a central theme in policies such as Every Child Matters (DfES 2003), The Children Act (2004) and the National Service Frameworks in England and Wales (Department of Health 2004). Effective team work can enhances service provision and ensure better result of care, lower result of stress for parents and mutual support for the family and the child ( Borrill ,2002). The Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) Code of Conduct (2008) that professional should work together in prompting the wellbeing of those in their care including the family and wider committee

1.1 Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role. Duty of care means to have a legal responsibility towards others. It is a legal requirement that all health care workers must put the interest of their service users first and make sure that the service users do not come to any harm be it abuse or self-harm. As a care giver, my duty is to provide care according to the organisation’s code of practice in my day to day work, to make sure that my service users are supported and treated with dignity and respect by following the policies and procedures set out by my employer, it is my duty of care to involve service user in their care unless it is not possible for them to be involved. Service should be provided in a safe environment

Firstly, providing services for a client often involves more than one service professional that may or may not be within the same agency. Communication between those professionals is key to the quality of care that client will receive. Secondly, many agencies also include more than one service program, and inter-agency communication between service providers, program directors, and executive management is vital to sustainability. Lastly, there is also the fact that many services are fund either by a government assistance program, or through insurance, and those agencies require good communication. Due to the diversity of audience, writing in this field is made very clear and often straight to the point.

As the single point of contact, our agency has obligations not only to you but also to the members of the systems with whom you interact with. Second, case management

In my everyday work I liaise with many different professionals: care agencies Safeguarding Teams ans Social Service Physiotherapists, OT 's IMCA 's GP 's, District Nurses, CPN 's, Mental Health Teams and others. Like everywhere else the key point is communication. If this area is running well, then achieving the goals are deliver the best centre care is much easy. Timing also is very important when working with others.

2.2 Care Act 2014 The Community Care Act 2014 sections 1, 2 and 4 highlights the general responsibilities of the act and it could be said the ones that most affect social workers in making decisions for action. We will look at these sections to see how they fit alongside the BASW Code of Ethics for Social Workers (2012). S.1 promoting individual wellbeing: This section states that the core purpose of adult care and support is to help people to achieve the outcomes that matter to them in their life. The general duty of a local authority, in exercising a function under this part in the case of an individual, is to promote general wellbeing (Department of Health 2014).

2.1 Device a strategy and criteria for measuring recent changes in Health and social care My organisation Royal United Hospital had breach policies and procedures related to respecting and involving users of the services, standard of care did not uphold the policy of safeguarding service users from abuse and monitoring the services on a regular basis and updating of DSU records. My duty to the organisations is to devise strategy and criteria to measure standards in the organisation to bring in line with National Standard 2008, a provider of health and social care providers must ensure that service users are given appropriate treatment, in line with regulation 20 of health and social care Act 2008. I will measure the standard of service offered by using two methods, quantitative and qualitative by gathering information from for customers, Stake holders, regulators, internal and external customers, I will also

The policy, legislation, regulation and Codes of Practice will assure the protection of the health and social workers and service users at all times form any injury, harm or abuse. Disadvantages • It is very expensive to develop and implement the policy, legislation, regulation and codes of practice of the organisational policy (Fullan and Carmel,

In the ever changing landscape of health and social care and children and young person’s settings there are many pieces of government legislation and regulatory framework that service providers and organisations must now comply with. For example Care Quality Commission (CQC) introduced the essential standards of quality and safety which are central to the workplace. Every staff member has responsibility for providing good quality social care. Social care governance is the process by which organisations ensure good service delivery and promote good outcomes for people who use services.

Duty of care plays a major role for health professionals, Duty of care follows codes and principles put into action for facilities such as hospitals via external sources such as the Government, in order achieve one core goal which is to ensure that the patient is subject to the best possible care that can be given by the facility and the Health Professionals working at the health facility. Duty of care is defined as “the obligations placed on people in a certain way, in accordance with certain standards” Royal College of Nursing (2018), making it the obligation of the health professionals to not breach their Duty of Care. If the Duty of Care is breached or Health Professionals work outside of their scope of practice, the health and wellbeing

Assess how multi-disciplinary working can improve the provision of health services. Case study 2 Claire is a 47 year old single mother of three children aged 12, 9, and 7. She has cervical cancer, which is now at stage 3. Multi-disciplinary strategy If Claire has a cervical stage 3 cancer, she will need a multi-disciplinary strategy to help her stage of treatment and operation.

In a case example a mental health practitioner working with a client dealing with schizophrenia and living in a supported environment close to his parents. Parents provided enough help and he was cared regularly by the local mental health association contracted to provide service. The mental health practitioner was building a personal rapport and relationship to support the client which was mainly maintaining a liaison with the carer (local mental health association) a formal system by reviewing the contract and supporting and encouraging his parents a natural system. Here the practitioner was an individual agent as his agency who created an impact by becoming a part if the mental health association and creating a connection between the other two societal systems. Bringing together all elements of the client’s life and supporting him.